Reminder: Please spread the word about the Age UK Health Influencing Survey

The views shared by older people in the Health Influencing Survey give us a powerful position from which to influence the Government and the NHS, so anything you can do to spread the word before the closing date of Sunday 24 September is greatly appreciated.

Age UK are once again conducting research to understand more about the current health and care needs of older people. We are looking to hear from older people themselves but also from friends and family who want to share their loved ones’ experiences on their behalf.

The survey will be open from 7-24 September. You can access it using this link.

Please help us to promote this survey by sharing it with the older people you support, as well as those in your own life.

This is the sixth time Age UK has run a survey like this and we’ve had fantastic responses. Well over 20,000 people have shared their views with us, which always gives us a powerful position from which to influence the Government and the NHS. The responses help us put pressure on the Government on a number of issues, particularly help during the cost of living crisis and access to NHS services.

If people completed our survey last time, we would still love to hear from them again, as some questions have changed and their situation may have changed. This time we are particularly interested in how the increases in the cost of living are affecting older people’s health and care, and in what their views are on what a new government should prioritise moving forwards.

Age UK Health Influencing Survey

Age UK’s Health Influencing Survey is now open. Help Age UK influence the Government and the NHS by sharing the survey.

Age UK are once again conducting research to understand more about the current health and care needs of older people. We are looking to hear from older people themselves but also from friends and family who want to share their loved ones experiences on their behalf.

The survey will be open from 7-24 September. You can access it using this link.

Please help us to promote this survey by sharing it with the older people you support, as well as those in your own life.

This is the sixth time Age UK has run a survey like this and we’ve had fantastic responses. Well over 20,000 people have shared their views with us, which always gives us a powerful position from which to influence the Government and the NHS. The responses help us put pressure on the Government on a number of issues, particularly help during the cost of living crisis and access to NHS services.

If people completed our survey last time, we would still love to hear from them again, as some questions have changed and their situation may have changed. This time we are particularly interested in how the increases in the cost of living are affecting older people’s health and care, and in what their views are on what a new government should prioritise moving forwards.

Funding Bulletin #31 – Updates on Public, Corporate, Trusts and Public Sector Funding | February 2023

The latest fundraising bulletin is now available for you to view below.

Welcome to the February funding bulletin! This month’s bulletin contains details of upcoming services, programmes and campaigns, including Free Wills Month and an update on Age UK’s Older Prisoners Programme.

If you know of a colleague at your organisation who would like to receive this bulletin and other updates from Age UK in our e-newsletter Signpost, please share this sign up form with them. Thank you!

You can view or download the Bulletin below:

Funding Bulletin #30 – Updates on Public, Corporate, Trusts and Public Sector Funding | January 2023

The latest fundraising bulletin is now available for you to view below.

Welcome to the January funding bulletin. This month’s bulletin contains some potential funding opportunities and information on Age UK projects, including an update on the Digital Champions programme.

If you know of a colleague at your organisation who would like to receive this bulletin and other updates from Age UK in our e-newsletter Signpost, please share this sign up form with them. Thank you!

You can view or download the Bulletin below:

Reminder – Can you feed into Age UK’s response to the UK Covid 19 Inquiry?

Complete a survey to inform Age UK’s response to the Covid-19 Inquiry.

A reminder that Age UK have been asked to provide ongoing evidence to the UK Covid-19 inquiry and most recently for Module 1 which is concerned with emergency preparedness, resilience and pandemic planning and the extent to which the government factored pre-existing inequalities and vulnerabilities into emergency planning.

We want to make sure that the whole Age UK network has the opportunity to respond and provide their experiences and insight.

You can do so through this survey. The deadline for the survey is 5pm on the 26th January 2023.

The survey covers specific questions related to Module 1 and some more general questions about the impact of the pandemic and opportunities for further engagement which we will use in responding to the inquiry as well as looking at Age UK’s own response. Please note that your responses may be included in Age UK’s formal response to the Covid-19 Inquiry in anonymised form. Individual responses will not be attributed to a specific organisation or person.

We really appreciate any responses and thank you in advance for your time. If you have any issues or questions please contact healthinfluencing@ageuk.org.uk.

Funding Bulletin #29 – Updates on Public, Corporate, Trusts and Public Sector Funding | December 2022

The latest fundraising bulletin is now available for you to view below.

Welcome to the December funding bulletin – a slightly earlier and shorter edition than normal due to the Christmas period! This month’s bulletin contains details of new funding from the organisation Friends of the Elderly, as well as a reminder of the New Cost of Living Response Fund from Age UK.

If you know of a colleague at your organisation who would like to receive this bulletin and other updates from Age UK in our e-newsletter Signpost, please share this sign up form with them. Thank you!

You can view or download the Bulletin below:

Survey to shape the future of Breast Cancer Now’s services

Find out all the details of Breast Cancer Now’s new survey, including how you can spread the word amongst those you support.

Breast Cancer Now is undertaking an ambitious project to help shape their support services. As part of this work, the charity is running a survey to hear the experiences of people who have had a primary or secondary breast cancer diagnosis since the beginning of 2019 – particularly their experiences of accessing and receiving information, guidance and support.

Breast Cancer Now will use the survey results to review and improve the support they offer and will share news of changes or developments they make on our website.

If your organisation would like to spread the word of this survey amongst the people you support, Breast Cancer Now have supplied some wording that you may find useful below:

Funding Bulletin #27 – Updates on Public, Corporate, Trusts and Public Sector Funding | October 2022

The latest fundraising bulletin is now available for you to view below.

Welcome to the October funding bulletin. This month’s bulletin contains a number of potential funding opportunities, details of the Age UK raffle and information on schemes being piloted by Age UK.

If you know of a colleague at your organisation who would like to receive this bulletin and other updates from Age UK in our e-newsletter Signpost, please share this sign up form with them. Thank you!

You can view or download the Bulletin below:

Older People’s Health and Care Survey – October 2022

Age UK’s Health Influencing Team are once again conducting the “Older People’s Health and Care Survey” and would be grateful if you could share the survey across your networks.

Age UK’s latest Older People’s Health and Care Survey is now live! As with our previous surveys in 2020 and 2021, our aim is to understand more about the current health and care needs of older people. We are looking to hear from older people and those that support them, including local Age UKs. Over 15,000 people responded to last year’s survey, which gave us a powerful position from which to influence the Government and the NHS.

Your responses helped us put pressure on the Government on a number of issues, particularly help during the cost of living crisis and access to NHS services.

We would be really grateful if you could once again share this survey across your networks so that we can hear as many voices as possible. Thank you!

The survey closes on Wednesday 19th October.

Funding Bulletin #26 – Updates on Public, Corporate, Trusts and Public Sector Funding | September 2022

The latest fundraising bulletin is now available for you to view below.

Welcome to the belated September funding bulletin – our apologies for the delay in getting this out to you, our comms team were on reduced capacity last week. September’s bulletin contains a number of potential funding opportunities as well as information on schemes being piloted by Age UK.

If you know of a colleague at your organisation who would like to receive this bulletin and other updates from Age UK in our e-newsletter Signpost, please share this sign up form with them. Thank you!

You can view or download the Bulletin below: